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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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The combined employment effects of minimum wages and labor market regulation: A meta-analysis
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2010
This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...
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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis
Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009
). We characterize the program estimates according to the type and duration of the program, the characteristics of the …
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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...
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Wage effects of on-the-job training: A meta-analysis
Haelermans, Carla; Borghans, Lex - 2011
A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education
Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024
High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
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Wage flexibility and labour market institutions: a meta-analysis
Clar, Miquel; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl - 2007
Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different...
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